Dark Days

By Grace O’Reilly

Short, dark days and long black nights.

The daytime one third of the 24 hour cycle.

The daylight a constant feel of “half hour before lights are switched on”;

for it’s that grey, bleak darkness.

Too dark to see and enjoy the day;

and too bright for artificial light.

Nightime now and for the next 4 months;

two thirds pitch and almost pitch black darkness.

Our lives plunged into Mr Winter’s life!